Bharti Airtel and Visa have partnered to bring mobile payment services to seven markets in Africa.
Ooredoo’s Indonesian operator Indosat lent support to ongoing disaster relief efforts this week in Jakarta in the wake of severe floods affecting the city’s communities.
Vodafone Fiji has deployed Genband’s Experius Application Server for advanced SIP Trunking, Hosted PBX and Unified Communications (UC) services.
Thailand’s government has shot down reports that the country’s 4G auctions will be delayed, despite the country’s regulator confirming the delays just days ago.
Millicom’s Tigo Pesa mobile money service is becoming the first in Africa to allow transactions with users of other mobile money networks within the same market.
Thai regulator NBTC has confirmed that the country’s 4G auctions, originally scheduled to be held last August, will be delayed again.
Scandinavian operator Telenor has partnered with Opera to pilot its Opera Max app in several Asian markets.
Vodafone Ghana and Kirusa have announced the launch of ‘Ebola Public Health Project’.
Turkcell’s subsidiary Astelit, along with the Russian operators MTS and VimpelCom, has acquired spectrum to offer 3G services in Ukraine.
The Bridge Alliance has deployed Ericsson’s Device Connectivity Platform (DCP) multi-domestic solution for the Internet of Things (IoT).
Orange has acquired all of Orascom’s shares and voting rights in the Egyptian operator Mobinil for €209.6 million ($237.3m).
Pakistani operator Warid Telecom is deploying SpiderCloud Wireless’ small cell offering.
Telefonica Group has written down the value of its Venezuelan assets in response to the country’s currency weakening.
Azercosmos, the national satellite operator of Azerbaijan, has partnered with Intelsat S.A to design and launch the Azerspace-2/Intelsat 38 satellite at the 45 degrees East orbital position.
Digicel is offering prepaid electricity to residents and business owners in Papua New Guinea via Redknee’s converged billing solution.
The Senegal Ministry of Education and Samsung Electronics Africa have announced the launch of a mobile education solution aimed at creating positive change and providing an advanced and interactive classroom experience for learners.
Next month’s Indian spectrum auctions have attracted 8 bidders.
Zain Jordan has become the country’s first operator to launch 4G/LTE services in the Kingdom.
Cloud services firm acens has partnered with BaseKit to deploy the latter’s website building platform in Brazil.
Angolan operator Unitel has successfully demonstrated an end-to-end LTE-Advanced (LTE-A) Carrier Aggregation solution in conjunction with Ericsson.
MTN Group may acquire a majority holding in South Africa’s fixed-line incumbent Telkom, in a move aimed at narrowing the gap between MTN SA and Vodacom.
T-Mobile Poland is increasing network visibility and performance with Accedian’s V-NID Performance Platform.
Thailand could see its 4G auctions delayed into 2016 unless new digital economy legislation is passed by April.
Facebook and Reliance Communications (Rcom) are teaming up to launch the social network’s internet.org app in India for the first time.
Vodafone Egypt has lined up EGP9.5 billion ($1.25 billion) to invest in its network across the next 3 years, despite its shareholder Telecom Egypt’s planned sale of its 45% stake.
BelCash Technology Solution PLC has partnered with two banks to launch HelloCash mobile money services in Ethiopia.
Astellia is implementing its managed services platform for the Filipino operator Smart.
China Telecom’s cloud branch CTCC will implement Nuage Networks’ SDN technology into its public cloud services for the Chinese market.
A new service will enable customers of Orange and the pan-African banking group Ecobank to transfer money between their respective accounts.
We live in a data-centric, wireless world, and no technology is better suited to address this reality than Wi-Fi.
Vietnamese market leader Vinaphone is launching a new cloud-based voice messaging solution with CT-IN and Nuance Communications.
2015 will be the year service providers truly identify - and begin filling - the engagement void that exists between them and their customers.
VimpelCom has sold its majority stake in Omnium Telecom Algeria – previously known as Djezzy – to the Algerian National Investment Fund (FNI) for US$2.6 billion.
A year ago, when I was asked which trends would have a significant impact on the ICT industry in 2014, I predicted that there would be an increasing interest in prefabricated modular data centres to cope with the expected data boom in developing countries.
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